Our camp yesterday was enlivened by the joyful news that we had orders to take the cars for some unknown destination, and it is generally be...

Cold and clear. Congress adjourned yesterday, having passed the bill suspending the writ of habeas corpus for six months at least. Now the ...

Letters came to-day from the President (or rather copies in his own handwriting), relieving Lieut.-Gen. Hardee, in Mississippi, and assigni...

It is now said that Meade's army has not retired, and that two corps of it have not been sent to Rosecrans. Well, we shall know more so...

We have bad news from the West. The enemy (cavalry, I suppose) have penetrated Mississippi some 200 miles, down to the railroad between Vic...

Confined to camp all day on act. of my leg. No news of any kind in but rumored that Jeff Davis is across the Missippi, One Regt go on the c...

Quite cold during the night, find myself almost too lame to walk when I get up foot swelled badly The co is paid at 10.30 A. M. after which...

Sprinkled a little during the night cloudy & promising ruin this morning. Spend the forenoon making out some Returns. Afternoon spend w...

The 2d Brigade starts at 7 A. M. with 4 days rations & in light marching order are accompanied by one battery of 6 guns & 30 empty ...

Rec orders to be ready for the road at 12. m. with 1 days rations officers & men. at noon rec orders to be ready at 6. a. m. tomorrow. ...

Spend most of day writing, at 12. m. a salute of 200 guns fired by order of Genl Canby in honor of the surrender of Genls Lee to Grant ...

We reached Meridian at 7.30 A.M., with sound limbs, and only five hours late. We left for Mobile at 9 A.M., and arrived there at 7.15 P....

charlottesville , Nov. 26th, 1863. . . . We hear to-night that the Army is to move, it is thought to Fredericksburg. The news from ...

Found everything in Main Street twenty per cent dearer. They say it is due to the new currency bill. I asked my husband: “Is General Jo...

Nashville , Feb. 1, 1864. . . . News from Knoxville is uninteresting. So says General Foster, commanding there. Scouts of General Dodge...

Chattanooga , Jan. 23, 1864. . . . In one view you behold the mountains of several States, including the gorge in Taylor's Ridge at...

The weather is quite cool and has been for several days. We left Meridian early this morning for Vicksburg, followed by large numbers of co...

After two hours' marching our army entered Meridian at about 10 o'clock this morning and went into camp. The rebels are still retre...

We marched fifteen miles again today and went into camp for the night. The Seventeenth Corps also corralled their wagon train, leaving two ...

The weather is nice and warm today, as it has been for several weeks. A part of General Tuttle's Division arrived in camp from some poi...